Preparations are going on fast in Asia's largest Tulip Garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. This garden will be opened later this month. This year 17 lakh tulips of different colors have been installed in the Tulip Garden, in which 2 types of tulips are being installed for the first time. Now 74 types of tulips will be seen in this garden.
According to officials, the color theme will be taken special care of this time as every time. Last year, 4.65 lakh tourists arrived here in 25 to 30 days. Tulips are blooming in special temperature. In view of this, the department adopts a shift type strategy to keep this garden open for a long time. That is, some beds of tulip are planted by keeping a little gap.
According to Asif Ahmed, Assistant Floriculture Officer of Tulip Garden, this garden remains a center of attraction for tourists. It will be opened to tourists in the coming days. According to Asif, they try to do something new for the Tulip Garden every year. This year, he is coming with a new color theme.
He has added two new varieties of tulip this year, causing the total number of varieties to 74. Apart from tulip, this garden also has Dafodil, Hycinth, Muscakari and other spring flowers. Spread over 55 hectares, 1.7 million bulbs have been installed in this garden this year. It is expected in the previous year that more tourists will reach here this year.
Let us know that the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden was founded in the year 2007 by the then CM Ghulam Nabi Azad. Initially 50 thousand tulip bulbs were installed, which were ordered from the Netherlands. After this, the garden became increasingly popular among tourists and every year the number of tulips and tourists increased.
